Melissa Hortman's rise was notable for steady progression up the ranks built in large part on an ability to forge ...

The Minnesota Republican Party has hit out at protesters picketing their state headquarters in Edina on Monday to accuse it of inflaming political violence and hatred with irresponsible rhetoric ...

Hortman was fatally shot two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal ...

Nearly 1,500 people gathered at the Basilica of St. Mary to hear the lives of Melissa and Mark Hortman honored with a healing ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — In the fall of 1998, a young attorney named Melissa Hortman made her first run for public office.

Three days before she was killed by an assassin targeting Minnesota Democrats, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman told me she thought work in the Legislature was becoming harder because Republicans were ...

The slain legislator pushed for an array of causes — from voting rights to free school meals — that benefited marginalized communities.

Their reason was to push back, they said, on violence and hate in light of the assassination of former speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.